(TORONTO, ON) – Ontarians are rising up to fight cuts and privatization of the public services families depend on. More than 50 actions are expected on Wednesday, April 17 when communities across Ontario take action against the cuts to education and health care that were announced in the PC budget on April 11. Actions across…
PC government’s cuts to education and health care let families suffer while big business profits, says Ontario Federation of Labour.
This list was last updated on April 10, 2019. PC actions to date (highlights): April 2019 Considering freezing wages for public sector workers Considering removing seniority-based hiring for teachers (Regulation 274) and violating collective agreements Considering implementing mandatory annual math testing for all teachers in Ontario, including retroactively Triggered school boards across Ontario to issue…
(TORONTO, ON) – By passing Bill 66, the government is showing its disdain for the workers of Ontario, says the Ontario Federation of Labour. “Bill 66 is going to cost Ontario workers by reducing the overtime hours they’re paid for, at the same time as it compromises health and safety,” said Ontario Federation of Labour…
The Ontario Federation of Labour is Canada’s largest provincial labour federation, representing approximately one million workers. The OFL is seeking several part-time campaign organizers for specific regions across Ontario to lead local mobilizing and outreach efforts for the Federation’s Power of Many Campaign. Join a small, dynamic team of elected leaders, social justice advocates and…
The OFL calls on the Premier to stop stalling and develop an Auto/Industrial strategy for Ontario that will protect the jobs of workers in the automotive industry. On March 28, the Fiat Chrysler manufacturing plant in Windsor announced that it would be eliminating the third shift at its Windsor Assembly plant, putting more than 1,500…
TORONTO, March 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The OFL launched its Power of Many campaign of resistance to the Ontario government’s pro-business agenda of cuts and privatization today. Union members and community activists from all sectors and all parts of Ontario gathered to take action at the OFL Power of Many: Take Back Ontario conference.…
(TORONTO, ON) – Ontarians are coming together at the Power of Many: Take Back Ontario Conference on March 25 to stop the government’s pro-business agenda and build an Ontario for all, says the Ontario Federation of Labour. “The PC government is taking our province backwards. They are breaking their campaign promises by cutting public sector…
Monday March 25, Ontarians are coming together at the Power of Many: Take Back Ontario Conference on March 25 to stop the government’s pro-business agenda and build an Ontario for all. CONFERENCE MATERIALS ISSUES FLYERS ON Doug Ford CONFÉRENCE «REPRENONS L’ONTARIO EN MAIN »
(TORONTO, ON) March 21 is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. This year, the day comes shortly after at least fifty Muslim worshippers were murdered and many others injured in a white supremacist terrorist attack in New Zealand. Only a few years ago, in 2017, six worshippers were murdered in a similar…
Stop Ford’s cuts to Ontario schools.
(TORONTO, ON) – The government’s proposed education funding cuts and changes to class sizes and curriculum will compromise learning for students across the province, while violating collective agreements, says OFL. “Increasing class sizes at any grade level means fewer educators to provide individual learning, compromising the quality of education for Ontario’s next generation,” said Ontario…
The OFL mourns the passing of Edith Mary Johnston, one of the first five female vice-presidents elected to the OFL in 1983. She was 98. “Edith Mary Johnston was a trailblazer,” said Ontario Federation of Labour President Chris Buckley. “Her life’s work for fairness and equality at work is an example of change in action,…
Government must take steps to ensure violence against women and girls ends, says OFL Secretary-Treasurer Patty Coates in an op-ed at simcoe.com. Every two-and-a-half days, a woman in Canada is killed by her intimate partner. Statistics show that, overwhelmingly, it is men who are responsible for that killing. Ninety-five per cent of spousal homicide victims…
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(TORONTO, ON) – Union leaders held a press conference today at the Ontario Legislature calling on the Ford government to hold public consultations across Ontario on its sweeping health care restructuring law. Bill 74 is the Ford government’s omnibus health care legislation in which the government has given itself and its appointees in its new…
(TORONTO, ON) – Action, not consultation is what will close the gender pay gap, says the Ontario Federation of Labour. “The gender pay gap has been widely studied. The OFL has already submitted comprehensive recommendations to ensure pay equity for all Ontario workers,” said Ontario Federation of Labour President Chris Buckley. “Instead of consulting with…
(TORONTO, ON) – The Ontario Federation of Labor (OFL) is sounding the alarm after Ontario’s PC government introduced sweeping health care reform legislation, which they call the “People’s Health Care Act, 2019.” “What is perfectly clear is that large for-profit health care corporations, not the people of Ontario will benefit from the changes this new…
(TORONTO, ON) – Calling it a “bombshell”: the Ontario Health Coalition and the Ontario Federation of Labour responded to a leaked document revealing a draft health care legislation written by the Ford government in secret that would create a “super agency” with extraordinary powers to restructure Ontario’s entire health care system. The Ontario NDP opened…